I have a question on calorie intake. My work out partner is 5ft 7 he weighs 220lbs. He would like to get ripped for the summer. Knowing how important calorie intake is, were tryna find out what should be a healthy daily calorie intake for a 220lb male to lose 50lbs ASAP! (atleast by month of May) I never till now started payin attention to calorie intake up intill now. I went & checked a calorie counter, it sayin' to maintain a body of weight of 220lbs with little or now exercise, the daily intake should be 2496 calories a day. So I checked it for lose weight with moderate exercise it said calorie intake for tha day should be 2724 calories.??? So I need help because I don't understand how it says to maintain body of 220lb's u need 2496 cals a day with no exercise, but to LOSE weight a 220lb male should eat 2724 cals a day??? Are these numbers right? Will this help a 220lb male lose up to 10-15lbs a month? Please help me........
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Firslty - Nothing 'healthy' will make him lose 15 lbs a month... The only type of diet that may get him to drop weight like this would be either:spk277 said:
1/ a VLCD (a 'very low calorie diet' - which is a medical tool people use for morbid obesity. It involves using nasty liquid meal replacements which give you all of ~600 cals/day and they are done under the supervision of a medical doctor - as frequent medical check ups are required to test for things like vitamins and mineral disturbances and other things).
2/ A Lyle McDonald PSMF (you can read about it at www.bodyrecomposition.com ) - and this is basically just a 'not as nasty' VLCD which involves starving yourself on low levels of protein + vegetables + fish oil capsules with intermitted 're-feed' days. Hellish - but effective..
Neither options are good for long term results though... and neither are going to do a lot for his general health.
10 may be do-able if he is very strict and if he is severely de-trained at the moment... But if he wants to get lasting results and he actually wants to have a life between now and may) then he may have to settle on 6-8 pounds a month...
In terms of his calorie requirements.. It depends on his activity level and his body fat% (as well as things like genetics etc) as to what he will need... I don't think 2500-2700 cals would be a bad starting figure - he will not lose 10 pounds a month on it, but if he is sensible with his training then he would probably start to lose weight steadily.
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It's true what the above poster said however, if his past eating habits consists of eating lots of junky type of foods he could lose 15 pounds in one month. Most of it though, being water and perhaps toxins.
What are his current eating habits? Is he eating lots of processed foods? Maybe too many carbohydrates? (For every gram of carbohydrate consumed one generally retains 4 teaspoons of water.)
If he limits processed foods, replaces starchy carbs with more fibrous ones and eliminates bad carbs he could have a good start.
Nothing is impossible if handled appropriately.
What are his current eating habits? Is he eating lots of processed foods? Maybe too many carbohydrates? (For every gram of carbohydrate consumed one generally retains 4 teaspoons of water.)
If he limits processed foods, replaces starchy carbs with more fibrous ones and eliminates bad carbs he could have a good start.
Nothing is impossible if handled appropriately.
